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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I fail to see the difference. A car can either drive itself or it can't. I admit it's pretty amazing tech after watching videos of it in action, and it does a decent job of keeping the car out of trouble, but it it is again a case of where Tesla admits the software isn't perfect, but improving. Basically, translated that means it's beta software and they (Tesla) are willing to put the general public at some risk for the knowledge it gains the company.
I mean if the software can't do something as simple as pulling out of a garage without failing, is it really ready for a Walmart parking lot?
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I read that and immediately thought of a new teen driver or grandpa Joe, but then I imagined anyone really. Seems like so many people shouldn’t drive based on door dings and side swipes.
It isn’t perfect like how no one is perfect. Maybe it was in beta then it was at the driving level of a geriatric driver and maybe now it is better. I don’t know. With millions of Teslas in the world, there will likely forever be content on YouTube of the system failing, just like humans. This doesn’t give us a metric of the rate of failure. With trillions of searches a year, Google sees a lot of searches, yet for years they have been saying somewhere are 15% of searches are unique. In a similar way, neural networks will improve and improve, but there will likely always be something unique that throws it off. If it isn’t already there, systems like summon will likely outperform humans in having less incidents, but they don’t need to outperform humans or be perfect; they need to not be worse.
I can’t really speak for the video. I don’t know if this was a beta or when it was taken. I don’t know if there was a glare on the pavement that looked like an obstacle or some lines on the driveway that tripped up the cameras or what. It almost looked like it was trying to avoid the garage in front of it, but it is hard to see from that angle. I also feel like this was a woman-behind-the-wheel scenario because the second the car started pointing itself away from me, I would have stopped it, but she just kept going. That part of it is odd. Maybe her GPS location/signal was jumping around if that confused the car, but all I can do is make baseless conjecture.